ART CONTEMPORANI

Born in Sant Gregori (Girona) in 1976, Dani Buch is a painter, draftsman, and engraver. He lives and works in Barcelona, ​​where he develops his artistic practice after training at the Escola Massana and the Llotja. There, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, while simultaneously immersing himself in the study of artistic printmaking processes and techniques.

After a stint as an art director in advertising agencies, his career became entirely dedicated to personal creation. Over the course of more than two decades, his work has encompassed painting, sculpture, and graphic experimentation, with a constant evolution that has established him in the gallery and publishing world related to the visual arts.

His work has critically and ironically addressed the contradictions of the individual within contemporary society, using symbolic figures, tense settings, and compositions charged with visual energy.

In his most recent period, Buch turns his attention to a more refined language, focusing on serene landscapes that function as spaces for contemplation, interrupted by the presence of texts in unintelligible typography, inspired by the aesthetics of metal. These distorted and aggressive letters act as interferences within the calm of the natural environment. Sometimes they contain slogans of social protest, although their illegible form prevents a direct reading, forcing the viewer to intuit the message or confront their own discomfort. The contrast between the peaceful and the violent generates a poetic and visual tension that characterizes his new line of research.

Dani Buch thus continues to reinvent his work, exploring the boundaries between image, text, and emotion, and offering the viewer a space where beauty and criticism coexist in a state of alert.